POKEMON X AND Y WALKTHROUGH

Route 10: Menhir Trail

Following your victory, you can go to the top of the hill to Connecting Cave and use Strength to fill the gaps, where you'll find TM40 Aerial Ace and complete the shortcut back to Route 7. However, the next step is to ride north from the city to Route 10 towards Geosenge Town. At the start of the road to the right, you will find a couple of boulders you can push around to get TM74 Thunder Wave. Make your way up the path to find a garden of standing stones, where midway through, you're confronted by another Team Flare Grunt, presumably the same one you met earlier.

Next, continue on battling a few more Trainers and Grunts before arriving at Geosenge Town. Stop in the Pokémon Center to heal up, and find TM66 Payback from the guy standing nearest the changing station. There are only a couple of items to be found outside and an Everstone in the house north of the Pokémon Center. The rest of Geosenge is rather uneventful, vacant of even Mr. Bonding. As you walk through the center of town, you will find the same Grunt you battled a moment ago.

Follow him to the northwest corner of Geonsenge; the dialogue between him and you suggests that Flare is up to no good since they plan to use the stones to benefit themselves. He runs away and rival shows up to ask you about him, but explains he went to a dead end. Run back to the middle road in town and talk to the girl standing near the two tables, who directs you to the hotel to talk about the stones. She tells you all about the hyotheses to their function, but concludes they might represent some kind of power. She leads you to Shalour suggesting a connection between similar stranges stones found there, a possible connection to Mega Stones. Leave the hotel and go to the east gate to be stopped by the Shalour Gym Leader and her Lucario, but this time to battle.

When you've beaten her, go through the gate to Route 11. You first walk in to see a Sitrus Tree, so pick up the Berry and continue up a series of stairs. Sycamore interrupts your trip to tell you about the Mega Evolution guru, a person you'll need to meet first in Shalour. After, fight the next two Trainers and you'll come to a cave at the end of the route. Once in the cave, go east, until you reach an intersection. The path up takes you to a Nest Ball, the narrow path right leads to a Revive, and down leads to the goal. Run that way until you reach a trainer where the path splits again. Continue south to find a Moon Stone or just go east to find a hole to the next section.

On the other side, the girl against the wall can heal your Pokémon. Start east and then down the cavern to meet up with Tierno who hands you a Flash TM. The path then goes east and rolls around in a "U" shape. Battle the four trainers along the way until you reach a couple sets of stairs. Don't head too far south or you'll slide back to the entrance. Take the top stairs that lead up. You can push the boulder there to create a shortcut, and then exit out of the cave north to find Shalour City.

Shalour City

Run through the middle of town a little past the Pokémon Center where Tierno and Trevor meet up to remind to you to speak with the Mega Evolution Guru. Stay moving in that direction on to the beach where Tierno bothers you again to hand you an "Intriguing Stone" he won for busting some moves. Continue your way up the beach to the Tower of Mastery and through the door under the statue inside. There, Leader Korrina is standing with the guru. Tierno and Trevor join you as you learn the stone you recieved is nothing more than an ordinary rock. Outside the statue, Rival and Shauna have arrived and the guru then teaches everyone about Mega Evolutions and the Mega Ring needed to perform them. Guru only has one so in order to decide who gets it, you must battle your Rival for it.

After winning the battle, you get your ring. Korrina returns to her gym on the west side of town at this point, so you can now enter and challenge her. Ready up for the next gym battle and don't forget to heal. Everyone is Fighting type here, so Psychic is a good bet, as well as Flying and the new Fairy type attacks. You need to build a rail bridge to the leader in the center by defeating her cronies. Skate around the techno rink beating Trainers one by one to build each of the four pieces. After all of them have been taken out, you can grind to the center to combat for the Rumble Badge.

Korrina has only three Pokémon and they lack diverse moves. With the exception of Machoke's Rock Tomb, every move is either fighting or normal. The only real danger here are the stat modifying moves. Power-Up Punch or Hawlucha's Hone Claws boost Attack, so take her Pokémon out quickly before they buff more than a few levels. Also, remember that Flying Press is Fighting and Flying, giving it more offensive strengths.

Due to these boosts and the lackluster movepool, typing is important. Likely one Pokémon will be sufficient for the entire battle. Needless to say, if you happen to have a Honedge found on Route 6 or any other Ghost type, the battle can be won single-handedly. A Psychic type would also be useful here, such as Espurr or a Solosis recently met in Reflecting Cave.

Earning your Rumble Badge now lets you command level 50 Pokémon and use Surf outside of battle. You also get TM98 Power-Up Punch, but unfortunately, she doesn't have the Mega Ring. You need to head back to the Tower of Mastery to claim it.